This book, first published in 1930 and reissued in 1961, examines the Western phenomenon of the rise of the ‘mass-man’. Analysing the state of society, it lays bare the problems that faced the countries of Europe in a book that resonates today in the imposition of direct action over discussion.
This book, first published in 1930 and reissued in 1961, examines the Western phenomenon of the rise of the ‘mass-man’. Analysing the state of society before the Second World War, acclaimed philosopher Ortega y Gasset lays bare the problems that faced the countries of Europe in a book that resonates today in the imposition of direct action over discussion.
1. The Coming of the Masses
2. The Rise of the Historic Level
3. The
Height of the Times
4. The Increase of Life
5. A Statistical Life
6. The
Dissection of the Mass-Man Begins
7. Noble Life and Common Life, or Effort
and Inertia
8. Why the Masses Intervene in Everything, and Why Their
Intervention is Solely by Violence
9. The Primitive and the Technical
10.
Primitivism and History
11. The Self-Satisfied Age
12. The Barbarism of
Specialization
13. The Greatest Danger, the State
14. Who Rules in the
World?
15. We Arrive at the Real Question
José Ortega y Gasset
